Peter Lawford
Gender: Male
Born: 7th September 1923
Died: 24th December 1984
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: The Thin Man, Dear Phoebe, The Doris Day Show, The Jimmy Durante Show, Dear Phoebe
Movies: Easter Parade, Little Women, Never So Few, Royal Wedding, Son of Lassie, Ocean's Eleven, Hook, Line & Sinker, Salt and Pepper, It Should Happen to You, Dead Ringer, Sylvia, One More Time, The Longest Day, Pepe, Skidoo, It Happened in Brooklyn, Cluny Brown, Exodus, Pilot no. 5, The White Cliffs of Dover, That's Entertainment!, Mrs. Parkington, Harlow, Advise and Consent, Sergeants Three, They Only Kill Their Masters, Good News, Rosebud, Angels Revenge, The April Fools, Julia Misbehaves, The Phantom of Hollywood, A Yank at Eton, Good Evening, Ms Campbell, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Please Believe Me, The Red Danube, Two Sisters from Boston, A Man Called Adam, Body and Soul, On an Island with You, My Brother Talks to Horses, Just This Once, Rogue's March, You for Me, Rogue's March
Peter Sydney Ernest Aylen (7 September 1923 – 24 December 1984), better known as Peter Lawford, was an English-American actor.
He was a member of the "Rat Pack" and brother-in-law to US President John F. Kennedy, perhaps more noted in later years for his off-screen activities as a celebrity than for his acting. In his earlier professional years (late 1930s through the 1950s) he had a strong presence in popular culture and starred in a number of highly acclaimed films.
Born in London in 1923, he was the only child of Lieutenant-General Sir Sydney Turing Barlow Lawford KBE (1865-1953) and May Aylen (née May Sommerville Bunny, 1883-1972). At the time of Lawford's birth, however, his mother was married to her second husband, Dr. Capt. Ernest Vaughn Aylen, one of Sir Sidney's officers, while his father was married to the former Muriel Williams. After Peter's birth, his mother confessed to Aylen that the child was not his, a revelation that resulted in a double divorce. Sir Sydney and May Aylen then wed in September 1924, after their divorces were finalized and when their son was one year old.
Lawford's family was connected to the British aristocracy through his uncle Ernest Lawford's
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